skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was helping with a murder case, it was a little over five years since the crime, and the defendant asked me if I knew if there was a way to get cellphone location data as he said he had left the scene of the crime about an hour before the incident was held to happen, and returned about an hour afterwards.

Nobody had thought to get this data before. I called Verizon but I was told they only hold location data for five years and had already erased it.

For other reasons I believe the defendant to be innocent. He was put to trial three times for the crime; his first two guilty verdicts were overturned on appeal before he plead guilty to the minimum to get the process over with and have a near release date.
Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashes in Kazakhstan
I think you need to be a little bit crazy to enter the browser space. It's not for the feint of heart.
Merry Christmas!

Up until I was about 10 years old, my family would drive to my grandparents’ house every year to celebrate Christmas Eve with my extended family. We’d track Santa using the NORAD Santa tracker (which, by coincidence, reports Santa being in San Francisco as I type this) and open presents from my grandparents.

One year, I got a Kindle Fire, which was the first computing device I called my own. Because I didn’t have my own computer and the family computer was usually being used, I did most of my early programming on the Kindle by downloading an app called AIDE that allowed me to compile Android apps on Android (of which the Kindle ran a modified version) and sideload them. By the time next Christmas had rolled around, I’d built my first complete Android application—a graphing calculator complete with support for basic algebraic expressions, trigonometric functions, and a page that explained what every supported mathematical function did and how it worked. I was so excited to show my cousins and grandparents.
That is a shame. Scylladb seemed like a useful database.
Memory Management in Pascal
Show HN: Add Santa Hats to Photos – A Simple Web Tool
I built a simple web tool that lets you add Santa hats to photos. Just upload an image, adjust the hat's position and size, and download the result. Built with web technologies and works entirely in the browser - no server-side processing needed. Perfect for adding some holiday cheer to profile pictures.
Not even sentences. I've known multiple people who have been incarcerated over a decade on allegations in pre-trail detention ("jail"). You don't need a sentence to lose years of your life.
That shows that the censorship mechanism happens at the token sampling level and not post generation, at the least
Closer to 10^15 tonnes, so a few orders of magnitude out.
Yes there are, I can provide you with one.
What a great story, the perfect kind of HN post. Did Sinclair advertise in Greek... Or did your Grandma speak enough English to figure out what to buy?
As I said, you can mix halon and oxygen, and they won't react (even if you try to ignite them).

That makes me wonder if any of the original designers of the oxygen system considered whether a halon-oxygen mix would've been better than pure oxygen.
Development on GalliumOS has been discontinued, and for most users, GalliumOS is not the best option for running Linux due to lack of hardware support or a kernel that's out of date and lacking important security fixes.

:(
The land of "human rights": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolutions_concerning_death_p...
Related: A python package for atmospheric correction of imaging spectroscopy (“hyperspectral”) radiance data: https://github.com/isofit/isofit

And a superset package, for the EMIT imaging spectroscopy investigation: https://github.com/emit-sds
For a circle, pi is the ratio of the circumference to its diameter. Every ellipse also has a circumference-to-diameter ratio. Well, two ratios, since ellipses have both major and minor diameters. You might think that there would be some kind of clever formula that let you calculate this ratio, but there isn’t! Instead, these pi-like numbers for ellipses are expressed as integrals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_integral

Scroll down to “Complete elliptic integral of the second kind”. That is your search term for looking it up. It is kind of a surprise that there isn’t some neat formula for calculating the circumference of an ellipse. The formula given is:

C = 4 a E(e)

The function E(e) here can be calculated in a few different ways, but it is really just defined as an integral that measures the length of a single ellipse arc.

Here, e is eccentricity. E(0) therefore gives π/4 since a circle has eccentricity 0. E(1) also therefore gives 1. So the E(e) function goes from π/4 to 1 as e goes from 0 to 1.
> there is no good argument for IRV over score/approval

Score voting calls for ambiguous, proven-to-be-culturally-variable ratings that have no natural relationship to preferences (and approval does the same thing in an opposite way, while score voting relies on ambiguous distinctions that don’t have a clear mapping from actual preferences, approval forces voters to rank with artificial ties that don’t have a clear mapping to actual preferences); most metrics simply do not reflect this because they have no mechanism to.

Where these problems don’t apply, as is the case many places outside of secret ballots for elections of public officers, score and approval can be great. E.g., open ballot approval on a choice of a group activity where voting “approve” is a commitment to participate if the selected option wins makes perfect sense, or open-ballot score voting where the given score is a commitment to provide some quantity of resources proportional to the score to the common effort if the item given that score wins. Then the ratings given are tied to concrete differences in preferences.

(On the other hand, choosing between single-winner ballot methods is mostly a waste of time regardless of the abstract merits of the particular system; the most significant difference within democratic systems in quality of government by popular engagement, popular satisfaction with government, and a number of other measures is with the degree of proportionality of the main legislative body, and no single-winner system is going to deliver much of an improvement there, you need a system designed for proportionality, which means multimember districts on some level.)
Merry Christmas ^^
2.24 billion olympic sized swimming pools
Traditional MCTS analyzes each line all the way to endgame.

I believe neural-net based MCTS (ex: AlphaZero and similar) use the neural-net to determine how deep any line should go. (Ex: which moves are worth exploring? Well, might as well have that itself part of the training / inference neural net).
Same with 007 on n64
Whalewall: Automate management of firewall rules for Docker containers
If I have to spend 20+ years then my life as I know it is over because there’s no way I’m coming out the same person that went in.
Christmas is not about Jesus at all, it's the American red-and-green snowy holiday with family, Santa, gifts and drinking. It's not perceived as a religious holiday by most of us. If you want those other threads, then perhaps you should personally create them. I'm sure nobody here will be upset with that.

As an aside, the letter X a literal form of Jesus's name.
The last issue you noted. There was a notorious Instagram page for criminals that noted this as one of the key things to do before committing crime — have an accomplice keep your phone.
From Scandinavian countries to Malta, you only have to cabotage, but that does not mean they used the same boat in one travel, most likely they progressed from outpost to outpost, where one generation settled in one outpost and the new generation searched for new adventures abroad.

For perspective, the Roman empire imported tin from Scotland (~3500 miles/~5600km).

On the contrary, going from Norway to Iceland, then from Iceland to Greenland, and then to Vinland in a few generations is a great maritime feat.
Nice, time for a rebasing token that rebases to the Airlock Pressure value

scam some boomers with Real World Assets(tm)
Yes, but that is not this case.
Thunderbolt is essentially external PCIe but there will definitely be higher latency than internal PCIe.
Kind of a shot in the dark, but would you (or anyone else here) remember the name/website of a similar subscription app that was modern/minimal in appearance, and iirc was developed by Chinese devs? I remember seeing it I think on HN itself, likely as a comment somewhere. (I think folks were concerned about the data storage/privacy aspect, but iirc the service was very well designed/comprehensive).
I was wondering, when the ISS will finally be shut down and destroyed, will the telemetry stream run until the very end? In that case, I’m going to wait in front of the terminal for that last farewell of the station when the time comes…
I agree there is an issue here -- btw, you would notice when eventually the server key changes.

User friendly and secure-by-default clients will leverage the domain HTTPS CA to solve this (fetching the server key using https). The downside is that it will require d/l and install
I’ve seen interviews with people how have been wrongfully imprisoned for extended periods and they’re changed in irreversible ways.

Some of them are unlikely to ever integrate back into normal society.
Are there any video games that include the ISS? It would be a cool add-on, having live telemetry added to the in-game version.
If I send you this: 48697468657265

Why do I need to send it to you 2 digits at a time? It's valid hex that converts to ascii, only 1 symbol at a time, which is how he communicated.

He could've done it with just a card for 0 and another for 1 if he really wanted.
I very much disagree with this sentence

> However, with Linux, you need to be able to change anything and everything on the immutable part, and this requires a new philosophy and set of tools.

Taking macOS as a North Star as a successful mutable Os,
most people don’t need to, and shouldn’t be, touching the immutable parts. I know the assumption is that you need to do that on Linux, but I don’t think a successful distro should require most casual users to go anywhere near that level of access.

If they do for some reason on Linux specifically, why would overlays not be sufficient? They achieve the same results, with minor overhead and significant reliability gains.

> I believe if someone can sit down and design something immutable with consideration to how a POSIX system works and what is reasonable and what's not, a good immutable system can be built.

But someone has done that. macOS is POSIX. SteamOS just works for most people.
Short disruption try again :)
But if it's still an integer (that you can't see) then it's still subject to reuse to the exact same extent that an integer is or isn't. It's entirely possible to wrap your internal integer at 16 bits and experience handle collisions. Alternatively you are free to use full 64 bit integers on Linux (at least IIUC).

If you can architect a system that never experiences handle collision then quite trivially you can architect an equivalent system that never experiences PID reuse.
Chiseling away at nation state as stable, ideal political unit.
Unfortunately this is quite common in some legal jurisdictions.
> The phrase doesn't mean that nothing can fail at runtime.

That's exactly what that phrase means, you're twisting the actual words in the phrase to be able to arrive at something more acceptable in your own mind. All you're saying is "oh you shouldn't take it literally". I can guarantee most people take that literally and it's bullshit.
OK, that's fucking awesome. Thanks
"Why is the top bar of HN red? Oh yeah... It's Christmas."

- Me, pretty much every year.

Got my TRS-80 Color Computer 2 in 1981. Much of my entire life was shaped by that computer.
Heartwarming story!
Fellow Greek here. Also made my family take the Amstrad CPC and monitor to an 8 hours trip to the village.
Damped Oscillation Xmas Tree https://communities.sas.com/t5/Graphics-Programming/Fun-With...
This is my speculation through observation, but imho friendship in its pure form is a genetic program. If you're "no longer twenty these days" (semi-quote from Bernie Taupin), you may not remember how it was but just look at any teen company in public transport or elsewhere, it just feels like a single organism. And at that age it doesn't mean whether your views (if there are any) are similar, you're just attracted. Another speculation that this mutation could be tossed several times with different outcomes, like different spans of this attraction. And keeping the strong bonds later in life from the evolution standpoint it wasn't worth it really so the best fit was to narrow it to some period best for survival of both participant (or group)
This sounds interesting, do you have more information on what you pivoted into?

I'm interested in doing something like world schooling and this sounds it might be related.
Engine rooms in ships typically have CO2 systems. There's been several fatalities when crew have reentered the space before the CO2 has been ventilated away. Made worse by CO2 being heavier than air so it can remain in some crawlspace under the engine frame or such.
You can visualize it easily if you think about your own vision.

If you put an hand in from of your face ( without covering your eyes ) you will be able to see behind it even if both eyes see only a part of what is behind your hand.

Now regarding the video imagine that each pixel is an eye, and they are spreaded evenly along a circle.

There are a lot of differences between this example and what he actually did, but it should be very easy to visualize ( main difference I can think of is how much amplification he needed to do so each eye is almost blind )
Thank you for this well developed argument..

It obviously does on the macro level.

On the individual level perhaps not so much. Unless you have a lot of debt as quite a few people tend to do. Then it also has obvious benefits.

Pre inflation standard bond yields were around 4-5%. Combine that with longterm deflation over several decades (e.g. late 1800s) and then consider how severely screwed you are if you have a mortgage on your farm..
Faster init of OpenSSL seems like a small benefit to a potentially annoying change. As a Fedora fan and user I don’t like this.
Not exactly as he emulates different lenses.

Notice his device is always facing forward and it doesn’t turn to side to get pixel data so you would expect to get an image from what is exactly in front of the sensor. But it is not in case where he sets it when making picture “behind”.
Are new files tracked by default? If I forget to ignore a bunch of build outputs, will that make my repo huge immediately?
JSON has never been better than XML. People are just terrible at XML and don't want to learn.
Generally, if they never had the rights to something, they cannot transfer them to someone else.
GIF Xmas Tree, GIF Xmas Tree... https://communities.sas.com/t5/Graphics-Programming/Fun-with...
This had all the tone from the outset to just be narrowly focussed on this crash-investigation alone, but the writer did dedicate a paragraph to Egyptair Flight 990 from 1999.. An incident that really was one of the first modern airline pilot-suicide's that has never (The NTSB's conclusion) been agreed upon by Egypt. And in the past couple of decades that number has risen at an alarming pace (LAM Mozambique Flight 470 2013, Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 2014, Germanwings Flight 9525 2015) < That extremely frightening and tight grouping of incidents seems to have been followed by a few years of normalcy. Then most recently the China Eastern Flight 5735 that China is still apparently working on a report for, but don't expect much in the way of admission on China's part, of course.
But at any rate, there is a noticeable problem in the corps of pilots being selected to fly for several airlines, even really good airlines.
You might be interested in Serpent OS, which offers immutability but without reboots after each upgrade.

https://serpentos.com/

They just hit their first alpha release, but it has been under development for years already. They focus on rust-based tooling, so even their coreutils are the rust versions instead of GNU. I read the alpha announcement yesterday, and might give it a spin later next year.

So far I've been very happy with Kinoite. I upgrade the base system once a week, but everything is installed in my Arch based container, so updates are fast and do not require a reboot.

On my workstation I use the Aurora Linux, a spin of Kinoite with extra tools such as tailscale added to the base image. On that machine I haven't needed to use rpm-ostree at all.

https://getaurora.dev/
I've been on Manjaro (arch based) for the past four years. It's mostly been fine but I've had to recover it from a botched Grub update once (an update randomly self destructed its configuration), which wasn't fun. But after four years it's in good shape, everything works, I run the latest kernel, etc. I have zero reason to wipe its installation and reinstall it again. Most other Linux distributions never lasted four years until I found a need to reinstall them or install some newer version.

And it's Linux so regardless of the distribution you'll be dealing with some amount of weird shit on regular basis. Has been true since I cycled home with a stack of slackware floppies almost thirty years ago. There's always configuration files to fiddle with, weird shit to install, etc.

But an immutable base OS makes a lot of sense and it's not mutually exclusive with that being updated regularly. Containerization is the norm for a lot of server side stuff. Effectively, I've been using immutable server operating systems for almost a decade. It's fine. All the stuff I care about runs in a container. And that container can run on anything that can run containers. Which is literally almost anything these days. I generally don't care much about the base OS aside from just running my containers hassle free on a server.

Containerization would make sense for a lot of end user software as well. IMHO things like flatpak and snap would be fine if they weren't so anal/flaky about "security". Because they are protecting a mutable OS from the evil foreign software. Running a bit of software that needs a GPU isn't a security problem, it's the main FFing reason I'm using the computer at all. Or own a GPU. This needs to be easy, not hard. And it shouldn't need a lot of manual overrides.

If I run a browser or things like Dartable, I usually have no reason to run them in crippled/unaccelerated mode. Sorry that's not a thing. It's the main reason I bypass flatpak on Manjaro for both packages. And I bypass PAC as well because I trust Firefox to have a good release process. So, I use the tar ball and it self updates without unnecessary delay. Which considering a lot of its updates are about security is exactly what I want.

Same with development tools. I use vs code and intellij. Both can self update. I have no need for a third party package manager second guessing those updates or dragging their heels getting those updates to me.
Just because much of home schooling might be worse (I don't know), doesn't mean that existing schools are particularly good.
Off topic but why refer to it as $DAYJOB (is it really a variable like that?) rather than just saying “work” or “my job”? I see it all over HN but I’ve actually never understood why people do this. Sorry for veering off topic.
well it will help to forestall the person being dead if exonerating evidence comes along, although anticipating the next question - yes, they can of course die for other reasons in prison, but not having any stats to back it up I will just state my very strong suspicion that most people on death row who die in prison do so because the death penalty was applied.
If you also need determinism and full source bootstrapping (you care about supply chain security) check out https://codeberg.org/stagex/stagex
Do Chinese think calling someone "Mom" or "Dad" is offensive? Or what is this about?
On average across all investors. Not so much if you invested at the peak of dot.com (would have taken decades to break even) or even the covid bubble.
What does ruby do well that other languages don't? What is the niche it's trying to fill?
I tried to understand what this library does, but without image examples its impossible for me. The docs almost seem to be unhelpful on purpose. Look at the use case description: "The functionality of the SiaPy library has been implemented in various use cases, demonstrating its capabilities and potential applications. The library's functionality is not limited to these examples and can be extended to other applications as well."

Are we living in the dead Internet already where everything is meaningless AI garbage?
YouTube's creator AI assistance leaking across universes? (If you haven't seen it, LGR did a video about the AI reply-to-comments stuff that YT is pushing - https://youtu.be/26QHXElgrl8)
It’s a general purpose language with some very mature frameworks.

I don’t think it needs a niche. :)
> Long term support

Intuitively, this seems opposite, because you could obviously 'mutate' (or mutilate) your Debian system until the updates break. Isolating user changes should make updates easier, not harder. Also MacOS uses a 'sealed' system volume and updates are like butter there.
Why would anyone be bitter about family members getting cancer? If some big company polluted the water in their town with hexavalent chromium and that caused the cancer in all the family members, I could definitely understand bitterness, but this doesn't seem to be a case like this at all. Most of the time, cancer just happens unfortunately, and isn't directly caused by some evil person or corporation (at least as far as we can tell in most cases). Why would someone be bitter about it? Angry at god or something? Sad, sure, but not bitter.
Don't say that word!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZvsGdJP3ng
Not necessarily during the week, but I have more energy and time for it on the weekends, thanks to not commuting. Do some cleaning during the week so there's not so much that needs to be done on the weekend.
Well, what would stop someone equating it with human-produced bad content? It's not like this is a uniquely AI phenomenon, "bad" content existed three years ago too.

I think you should mostly just not use superficial characteristics like "it includes AI generated art" as much of a signal, and judge it the same way you'd judge anything else - is it from a publication you trust? Is the subject matter of interest? Does the headline and/or skimming the description + first few sentences make it seem interesting?

All of those are better signals of whether it's worth reading something than superficial characteristics. After all, "don't judge a book by its cover" is a pretty common saying for a reason.
Could someone explain in simple terms, what’s so tricky about spinning off a v2-compatible chromium fork?
Do you have a better name suggestion?
You can’t edit config files on Windows from the terminal?

Not really an expert but PowerShell always seemed kind of more “powerful” and/or complex than bash
> vscode to do all of the automation, keypresses become more and more sluggish

The problem is VS Code then. Try IntelliJ, they spent ridiculous amounts of engineering to make typing as fast as Vim.

> I find when it pops up automatically to be maddening.

Me too, the first thing I do in my IDE is disable that. I love autocompletion, but I want it only when I need it. Now, that's completely different from just saying I don't need autocompletion at all.

> though it’s a real mixed bag between seeming magical and guessing the completely wrong thing.

Agree completely. Sometimes I am totally amazed at how it knew exactly what I wanted to write. But sometimes it misses the mark for sure. This tech is just going to get better though, so I like being able to use it while it improves and notice the difference with every new model.
A 'Traveling Santa Tour' Through U.S. Capital Cities https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Fun-With-SAS-ODS...